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Drawing the Village Church – Plein-air

June 8, 2015 by Lin Kerr 4 Comments

Plein-air drawing and painting is the in-thing. When you draw from a photograph it is trasnposing a little picture - but when you draw from life you breathe the image, you touch it and you often convey the sense of it. So the child artists began with looking - we made two trips to the church before the drawing session. One to look at it through viewfinders to decide on "portrait" or "landcape" and one to do rubbings of inscriptions. I believe this puts the image of the church into their … [Read more...]

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